Commons East
Townland in the civil parish of Ardfert, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Coimín Thoir
- Area
- 69.3 ha
- 171 acres
- Land parcels
- 119
- registered freehold, median 364 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Commons East, from 5 m² to 43,256 m² (4.33 ha, 10.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 64 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New/Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Strategic Residential Reserve
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Conservation, Amenity, Landscape Protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Tralee Municipal District Settlements's Plan (Variation No. 1 of the KCDP 2022-2028), Kerry · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Jul 2026N/a
(a) demolition of chimney stacks, (b) demolition of single storey extension and outbuilding to rear, (c) widening of window ope to porch front elevation and blocking up of door ope to porch side (east) elevation, both at ground floor level, (d) forming new window to side (east) elevation at ground floor level, (e) construction of single storey extensions to front, side (east) and rear, (f) decommissioning of existing septic tank system on site and installation of new mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter waste water treatment system (as granted under 23/260) and (g) all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660646
5 Mar 2026Conditional
retain steel storage containers and mobile home on site until completion of the dwelling house under construction and Planning Permission to remove same thereafter and Permission to complete dwelling and garage granted under Planning Application 24/60882, with revised facades and exterior finishes and all other associated site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660193
23 Dec 2025N/a
Planning Permission to extend housing development granted planning under 18/1220 and 20/434 by constructing an additional 18 new dwelling units consisting of 18 x 3 bed semi-detached dwelling houses complete with service roads, green amenity spaces and all other ancillary site services associated with the development
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2561224
17 Dec 2025Conditional
construct of a new modular dwelling house and a domestic garage with an on-site wastewater treatment system. The proposed installation will include a concrete septic tank and percolation area. Close up the existing site entrance and construct a new site entrance with splayed entrance walls, including all associated ancillary site works and boundary treatment
Permission · Kerry County Council, 25299
17 Dec 2025Conditional
Retention Permission to retain the demolition of a portion of the walls of my dwelling house, and planning permission to construct these walls again to restore the building to its original state at Cloon Glebe, Ardfert, Tralee, Co. Kerry
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2561191
9 Apr 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to demolish an existing porch to the North side of the dwelling house and replace it with a new extension and elevational changes at Cloon Glebe, Ardfert, Tralee, Co. Kerry.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560277
13 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission to demolish existing dwelling house and shed and erect new dwelling house with garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460882
24 Jan 2024Conditional
(1)Construct a machinery storage shed (2) all associated site works .
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460035
20 Nov 2023Refused
(A) BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, (B) CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE GARAGE, (C) INSTALL A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, (D) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231125
3 Jul 2023Refused
BUILD A PRIVATE SINGLE STOREY DWELLING , GARAGE, SERVED WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23757
26 May 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE COMPLETE WITH A MECHANICAL WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT, FOLLOWED BY A SANDCEL SAND FILTER AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23605
13 Mar 2023Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED GARAGE (C) DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM ON SITE AND INSTALL A NEW MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SANDCELL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23260
22 Sept 2021Conditional
AMEND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS GRANTED PLANNING UNDER 18/1220 CONSISTING OF ALTERATIONS TO SERVICE ROAD, PARKING AND GREEN AREA FRONTING HOUSING UNITS 13 TO 30 COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
Permission · Kerry County Council, 211077
21 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT (A) A NEW DWELLING, SERVICED BY A KLARGESTER BIODISC (BA) AND RAISED SAND POLISHING FILTER, (B) A VEHICULAR SITE ENTRANCE AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21833
3 Mar 2021Refused
CONSTRUCT A COMMERCIAL WAREHOUSE UNIT ON MY LANDS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 21215
14 May 2020Conditional
EXTEND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT GRANTED PLANNING UNDER 18/1220 BY CONSTRUCTING AN ADDITIONAL 40 NEW DWELLING UNITS CONSISTING OF 32 X 3 BED SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES AND 2 TERRACES OF 4 X 2 BED TOWN HOUSES (8 UNITS) COMPLETE WITH SERVICE ROADS, GREEN AMENITY SPACES AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
Permission, 40 homes · Kerry County Council, 20434
14 May 2020N/a
AMEND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS GRANTED PLANNING UNDER 18/1220 CONSISTING OF ALTERATIONS TO SERVICE ROAD, PARKING AND GREEN AREA FRONTING HOUSING UNITS 13 TO 30 COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
Permission · Kerry County Council, 20435
12 Dec 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT 30 NEW DWELLING UNITS CONSISTING OF 26 X 3 BED SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES AND 4 X 2 BED TOWN-HOUSES COMPLETE WITH SERVICE ROADS AND ALL ANCILLARY SERVICES AND SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
Permission, 30 homes · Kerry County Council, 181220
31 Oct 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF HIS DWELLING AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE HOUSE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 171083
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Commons East.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Commons East.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Commons East.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_71 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Commons East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Commons East · An Coimín Thoir
- Area
- 693,363 m² (69.34 ha, 171.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardfert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Ardfert, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardfert electoral division: 1,100 people in 424 households; 60% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardfert, Cloon Glebe, Farranwilliam, Gortaspiddale, Liscahane, Tubrid More
- Placenames
- Commons East on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.